Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government
Headline: Orders Federal Agencies to Improve Efficiency and Cut Waste
What it does: Agencies must set and update performance metrics, achieve identified cost savings, and implement government-wide spending transparency and fraud-detection systems.
- Requires agencies to find their share of $2.1 billion in administrative savings.
- Creates a Board to expand federal spending transparency and detect fraud.
- Requires agencies to publish quarterly performance metrics on performance.gov.
Summary
This order directs the federal government to strengthen management and performance reforms to cut waste, increase efficiency, and improve transparency. It requires agency leaders to set and review clear performance measures, publish those measures on performance.gov, and pursue administrative cost savings identified in the President's budget.
It creates a Government Accountability and Transparency Board to expand spending transparency and fraud-detection tools, requires agency Chief Operating Officers and Chief Financial Officers to lead reforms, and asks the Vice President and the budget office to oversee progress to save taxpayer dollars.
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